Tag: delivery
Ocado to roll out autonomous vehicles for grocery delivery
Online grocery shopping company Ocado has announced a partnership with Oxbotica to collaborate on deploying autonomous vehicles for use in its customer fulfilment centre (CFC), as well as last-mile deliveries and even kerb to kitchen robots. The Ocado/Oxbotica relationship began in 2017, when it conducted a two-week trial using an early prototype delivery vehicle doing…
Autonomous delivery robot Kar-Go hits the road
It may look like a giant bug on wheels but this is Kar-go, a self-driving delivery robot built by Academy of Robotics. Using artificial intelligence and a specially developed package management system to provide contact-free delivery, the electric vehicle is capable of delivering in both city-centres and suburban and rural locations. It can cover 60…
Sainsbury's in CRISIS – web site down, shopping undelivered, thousands at risk of starvation
Sainsburys’ web site has broken. The shopping portal is currently redirecting to a “Service Unavailable” message, accompanied by a nice stock photograph of two lemons (pictured). The site went down on Tuesday night, with the problem ruining the dinner plans of the chain’s online shoppers.
Around 10,000 people who have booked deliveries have been left without their shopping, facing the terrifying prospect of having to carry orange plastic bags home themselves for once. Here’s the moment of shame captured for posterity:
So if you’ve booked an online delivery, not only will they have mysteriously run out of all the two-for-one offers…